Cowbit Sluice piers
Introduction
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Cowbit Sluice piers
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 21 Aug 2022
Although called a sluice, there are no sluice gates. The grooves in these bastions, or perhaps pontoons, or more probably piers will take portable sluice boards, just as when the Coronation Channel was cut, to allow the water to be removed for maintenance.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.778613
Longitude
-0.154794